Zarafa
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 10, 2015
- Originally Released: 2012
- Label: Gkids Inc.
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Directed by | Rémi Bezançon | |
| Screenwriting by | Rémi Bezançon |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 4/5 --
A lot of ground -- both literal and thematic -- is here covered in 78 wonderfully animated minutes.
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Total Film
While the subtitles and material might skew this French-language animation towards older children, it is a beautifully rendered piece, with a heart is as big as the Sahara.
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The Herald (Scotland)
Rating: 2/5 --
The film veers from quasi-real to cartoonily silly and scenes either drag or whirl by too fast.
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Empire Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
Zarafa is a gorgeously delicate hand-drawn animation about the first giraffe to make the perilous journey from Africa to 19th-century Paris.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 2/5 --
In trying to tell an epic tale over just 78 minutes, the filmmakers sacrifice anything that might have made their film memorable.
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Time Out
Rating: 3/5 --
Gently told, but with wild flights of imagination involving hot-air balloons, nomads and spectacular scenery, it's a charming adventure, undercut with wise observations about big themes ...
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Scotsman
This hand-drawn French adventure is a children's story in the routine template of many friends-and-villains quests, but with a fresh historical setting and a serenely subdued look.
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New York Times
Product Description:
Animator Jean-Christophe Lie (TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE) and director Rémi Bezançon (A HAPPY EVENT) team up for this family friendly adventure following a young boy and an orphaned giraffe on an incredible journey. Inspired by the true-life story of the Egyptian Pasha who bestowed the gift of a giraffe to King Charles X of France, this animated film opens to find an elderly man telling the tale of a 10-year-old boy named Maki who escapes a life of slavery, and befriends a motherless baby giraffe named Zarafa. When Maki learns that the Pasha has instructed Hassan, Prince of the Desert to deliver Zarafa to King Charles X in France, the young boy puts his own life in jeopardy to return the giraffe to its rightful home. Along the way, Maki and Zarafa encounter a pair of magical twin cows named Mounh and Sounh (Moon and Sun), sail through the clouds with a benevolent balloonist named Malaterre, and battle the dreaded pirate queen Bouboulina.
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Product Info
- UPC: 883476149400
- Shipping Weight: 0.16/lbs (approx)
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